As the new year begins, Han Kun Law Offices is pleased to announce the 2025 promotion of new partners. These new partners are based across Han Kun's offices, covering practice areas such as private equity, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, domestic and overseas securities issuances and listings, investment funds/asset management, foreign direct investment, outbound investment, corporate compliance, antitrust/competition, employment, and dispute resolution.
Han Kun is committed to providing young lawyers with opportunities for further development, encouraging them to give full play to their abilities and helping them to quickly excel by providing more opportunities for responsibility and leadership. Han Kun values the vitality of these young lawyers and expects them to contribute to the firm's development by consistently upholding Han Kun's spirit of always aiming high and adhering to our philosophy of professionalism. Facing the new journey in 2025, let us join hands to tackle new challenges and fulfill new expectations!
Mr. Dalun Chen specializes in private equity and venture capital. He has represented M&A funds, multinationals, industrial capital, and leading companies in complex transactional issues involving acquisitions and sales, mergers and acquisitions, and spin-offs, etc. He is also highly regarded for providing legal services to start-up enterprises and venture capital funds, covering investment and financing transactions, post-investment management, and compliance. Mr. Chen's experience covers a wide range of industries in recent years, primarily in consumer goods, food and beverage, new energy and new materials, commercial real estate, logistics, circular economy, artificial intelligence, and healthcare.
Ms. Xiao Ding specializes in the formation and operation of onshore and offshore investment funds and asset management. She has represented many well-known clients in a variety of private equity-related transactions, including the formation, investment, and operation of private funds and fund managers.
Ms. Xin Du specializes in the areas of private equity and venture capital, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, domestic and overseas capital markets, employee equity incentives, and general corporate matters. She provides comprehensive legal services that cover deal structure design, due diligence, processing of legal documents and business negotiation. Ms. Du has extensive experience in industries of intelligent manufacturing, low altitude economy, consumption, food & beverage, entertainment, automobile, internet, artificial intelligence, healthcare, etc. Ms. Du has assisted numerous fast-growing startups in their equity financings, asset and business restructurings, share incentive matters, etc. and advised them in their routine legal affairs. She has also provided full legal services to many top-tier investment funds, strategic investors, MNCs, state-owned enterprises, and other institutional clients in their venture capital investment and acquisition deals.
Ms. Xiao Guo mainly practices in the areas of antitrust and competition, corporate compliance, and general corporate matters. With respect to antitrust and competition, Ms. Guo has been providing advisory services covering antitrust and anti-unfair competition matters, merger filings, antitrust investigations, IP-related antitrust issues, and establishing competition compliance systems. In the area of corporate compliance and general corporate matters, Ms. Guo regularly advises clients on corporate compliance, anti-commercial bribery, national security review, and internal investigations, covering fields such as high technology, internet, automobile, health care, logistics, real estate, retail, and agriculture.
Ms. Chenchen Jiang specializes in legal services relating to private fund formation and investment and asset management. She focuses on providing domestic and foreign private equity clients with legal services related to manager registration, private fund raising and formation, operation and management, exit and liquidation, and employee co-investment and performance incentives, as well as providing legal services with respect to due diligence of private fund managers and private funds and relevant investments. Mr. Jiang provides a full range of legal services related to private equity funds for many well-known domestic and foreign private equity clients, and has also represented many domestic and foreign investors in conducting legal due diligence and investing in private equity funds.
Ms. Jenny Li has extensive experience in Hong Kong capital markets and mergers and acquisitions, representing issuers and underwriters over the years in the listing of many companies on the Main Board or GEM of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in sectors including fintech, biotechnology, healthcare, financial leasing, shipping, catering, and retail. Ms. Li also provides regulatory compliance legal services for Hong Kong listed companies, M&A transactions, and general corporate matters. Prior to joining Han Kun, Ms. Li practiced law at a well-known Hong Kong law firm and was involved in several listing projects on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.
Ms. Yanhui Li's expertise is in high-profile commercial litigation and arbitration. She has handled cases for multinational companies involving cross-jurisdictional parallel actions, including complex cases involving parallel civil, administrative, and criminal proceedings. She mainly represents multinational companies, central SOEs, and start-up companies in industries including electronics, steel, healthcare, automobile, large-scale manufacturing, chemicals, and cosmetics. Ms. Li has represented clients in large insurance disputes, cross-border asset recovery, fraud disputes, international and domestic trade contracts, patent licenses, equity repurchases, joint ventures, equity transfers, etc. Ms. Li has handled cases before intermediate people's courts of various jurisdictions, higher people's courts, and the Supreme People's Court.
Mr. Zhehao Li specializes in private equity funds formation and operation, asset management, foreign direct investment, corporate compliance, and providing legal services to domestic and foreign clients in respect of legal documents drafting and review, deal negotiation, due diligence, legal research, etc. Mr. Li has represented many well-known domestic and overseas fund management institutions, large insurance institutions, state-owned investment entities, and listed companies in the establishment, operation, investment, and post-investment management of private funds, including RMB Funds, USD funds, QFLP/FILP, QDII, QDLP, QDII and QDLP, etc. He also assists various private fund managers in daily compliance matters.
Ms. Ying Liu mainly handles private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, domestic enterprise outbound investment, domestic and international capital markets, employee equity incentives, and general corporate matters. Ms. Liu has represented many investment funds, MNCs, and entrepreneurs in cross-border financing and investments, and M&A transactions. She has provided legal services to a number of issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings on overseas stock exchanges and provided comprehensive legal services in connection with designing share structures and equity incentive plans for many companies’ founding teams, senior officers, and employees in cross-border investment and financing and listing transactions. Ms. Liu specializes in industries including TMT, integrated circuits, logistics, advanced equipment manufacturing, medical devices, retail, new energy, AI, cross-border e-commerce, education, and real estate. Ms. Liu has accumulated rich experience in legal due diligence, designing deal structures, handling transaction documents, commercial negotiations, and legal research on various aspects of PRC laws and policies.
Mr. Kang Wu specializes in venture capital and private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, structure reform and globalization, and foreign direct investment. Mr. Wu has represented and provided legal services to various multinational companies, listed companies, investment funds, start-ups, and emerging companies in relation to their various PRC legal matters, covering the internet, advanced manufacturing, consumer products, games and entertainment, AI, semi-conductor, medical, and health. Mr. Wu has also represented a number of well-known domestic and overseas companies as their long-term external legal counsel and has accumulated extensive experience in corporate matters.
Ms. Wu Yichen has rich experience in domestic and overseas listing, M&A, and the restructuring of domestic listed companies. He has advised many companies on their domestic and overseas listings, M&A, restructuring and refinancing of A-share listed companies. In addition, Ms. Wu specializes in private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and compliance matters. Her industry experience covers biomedicine, information technology, artificial intelligence, consumption, high-tech manufacturing, and chips. She advises companies on the entire process from the incorporation, financing, IPOs, capital management, and compliance matters after listing and accompanies investors in all stages from investment, and post-investment management to exit.
Ms. Boyu Xie specializes in private equity investment, overseas capital markets, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, overseas investment, and general corporate affairs. Ms. Xie has represented numerous startups and growth companies, investment funds, and listed companies in legal affairs, covering a wide range of industries such as biomedicine, semiconductors, smart hardware, internet, enterprise services, education, cultural entertainment, and consumer goods. Ms. Xie has extensive experience in legal due diligence, transaction structure design, legal document drafting and revision, and business negotiations. Ms. Xie has also served as a long-term legal counsel for many domestic and foreign enterprises, providing legal services in areas such as corporate structuring, ESOP, corporate governance, and operations compliance.
Ms. Rantong Zhang’s practice focuses on domestic and offshore listings, restructurings and reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital and private equity investment. Ms. Zhang has extensive experience in IPOs, private placements, material asset restructurings, mergers and acquisitions in the A-share market, and IPOs in the H-share market. Ms. Zhang has also represented and provided legal services to numerous investment funds, start-ups, and emerging companies, and public companies in relation to their various PRC legal matters. The clients Ms. Zhang serves are in different industries, covering the semiconductor, technology, media and telecommunications, life sciences and healthcare, new energy and new materials, consumer goods and retail, fintech, financial services, and industrial and manufacturing.
Ms. Yu Zhang specializes in overseas capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment, and foreign direct investment. In the field of overseas capital markets, Ms. Zhang has advised many issuers and underwriters on overseas initial public offerings and overseas bond financing projects, accumulating rich experience in these areas. Ms. Zhang has represented numerous investment funds and enterprises in investment and financing as well as M&A transactions covering industries including the internet, new energy vehicles, education, real estate, logistics, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, Ms. Zhang has represented numerous foreign companies in completing equity investments and M&A transactions in China and provided legal and compliance advisory services to many foreign companies and overseas NGOs.
Mr. Yuxian Zhao specializes in handling commercial dispute resolution cases, especially cross-border dispute resolution, foreign-related and international arbitration, cross-border asset recovery, etc. The relevant cases have involved industries and transactions in areas such as investment and financing, M&A, biomedicine, advanced equipment manufacturing, production and supply of industrial raw materials and internet services. With respect to commercial arbitration, Mr. Zhao has extensive experience in representation and appearances in China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Shanghai International Arbitration Center (SHIAC), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA), Beijing Court of International Arbitration (BIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). In 2022 and 2023, Ms. Zhao has been recommended by The Legal 500 as a Recommended Lawyer for Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and was crowned as one of The Legal 500 Authoritative Lists in First China Arbitration Private Practice Programme in 2024. In addition, Mr. Zhao served as a director of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Youth Council for two terms.
Mr. Tingji Zhou focuses on the areas of employment, dispute resolution and commercial compliance. Mr. Zhou is adept at handling various types of employment dispute cases. He has a good understanding of the key points and difficulties of various stages of disputes and is good at planning dispute resolution strategies. He effectively discovers and arranges important evidence in each case and has successfully represented clients in many significant and complicated employment dispute cases. Mr. Zhou also excels at providing enterprises with solutions to various labor and personnel management problems and has in-depth research and rich practice experience in the areas of employee performance assessment, reward and penalty system, anti-corruption investigation, executing contract terminations, protection and management of non-competes, and settlement of employees in enterprise mergers, acquisitions and restructurings. In the areas of dispute resolution and commercial compliance, Mr. Zhou is adept at providing companies with legal services in compliance construction combining with their commercial needs. He has served as legal counsel for several large enterprises, providing efficient legal services for compliance reviews, equity transactions, and dispute resolution.